On Tuesday 17 July 2007 00:46:08 maxim wexler wrote: > So, emerge portage results in one package being > installed, portage, 61kb. > > emerge -u portage lines up 5 or 6 packages plus > portage, 18Mb. > > Went ahead and just did the one package, figuring > later I could do an emerge -u for the rest of it. > > But this is what happens: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge -pv portage > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild R ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.2.9 USE="-build > -doc -epydoc (-selinux)" LINGUAS="-pl" 0 kB > > Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 > kB > > What I expected. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge -puv portage > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB > > So why doesn't it list the upgrade part now?
Because --update stops calculating deps when none of the specified targets need updating. Only --deep checks the consistency of all dependencies even when none of the targets need updating. You could argue it's a deficiency in portage (although well-known).. -- Bo Andresen
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